Crossword Puzzle Number 5240 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A slight amount or degree of difference.
4. The amount that has spoiled.
12. (Roman Catholic) A greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Drawn or written with a pencil.
17. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
18. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
20. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
21. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
23. On or toward the lee.
26. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
27. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
28. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
30. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals.
39. Take away the weapons from.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
43. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
44. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
46. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
52. New Zealand conifer.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. A quantity of no importance.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
64. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
68. An Asian river between China and Russia.
70. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
72. Type genus of the Amiidae.
73. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
76. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
77. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
78. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
79. Of a firearm.
82. Made warm or hot.
83. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
84. A sleeveless dress resembling an apron.
85. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

DOWN

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
3. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
6. In operation or operational.
7. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
8. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
9. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
10. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
14. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
19. Old World woody vines.
22. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
24. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
25. An associate degree in applied science.
29. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
31. Not subjected to an aging process.
32. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
37. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
38. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
40. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
42. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
50. The condition of having no arms.
51. A dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays.
54. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
56. Music in triple time for dancing the landler.
59. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. Gone by.
62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
63. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
65. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
66. A worker who oils engines or machinery.
67. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
69. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
71. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
74. A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces.
75. Black tropical American cuckoo.
80. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
81. A Mid-Atlantic state.

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